Aw Kevin dear, thanks for understanding me lol.
This speech we talk about, was held last month, has there been any development?
Its amazing that only four people are behind WordPress, plus some new ones now. To me, it seems like WordPress is a company on the level of Apple. I imagined there would be hundreds of employes behind WordPress. They really give the impression of being the most professional people in the business of cloud-computing.
Same goes for BBpress. And to learn that most of this business is handled on forums and chatrooms is almost near the point of being unbelievable.
I imagined huge office landscapes, designer glasses, modern art on the walls, a brass mailbox full of offers to buy the company.
To learn that what we say on these forums, actually gets noticed by the makers is a huge privilage though. That never happens on places like Apple.com. Imagine Steve Jobs going, on the launch of iPhone 4: “So this guy Marius on the forums, really gave us a hard time about this the other day, so we decided….”
The “subscribe to topic” link is on the left hand side, above Tags.
It just doesn’t work. One of the joys of releasing a broken untested theme.
*Obviously* bbPress is about working with WordPress, so those complaining about it becoming a plugin really need to get over yourselves. bbPress wasn’t made to cater whatever bizarre whim you wanted it to, it was made to provide a forum that functions with WordPress. A plugin works great for that.
You’re totally wrong. Integrating with WordPress was an after-thought. At the beginning, it was made as a standalone software.
Please don’t confuse ‘mu’ and 3.0’s new ‘multi site’.
Any one who has the same problem or who has no such a problem?
I think integration on MU is just broken because mine doesn’t work if you log into the forums and then try to access the blog.
WordPress 3.0 + bbpress 1.02 : integration works fine.
but,
wordpress 3.0 multisite + bbpress 1.02 : integration doesn’t work.
….
when added the code below in wp-confeg.png
define(‘WP_ALLOW_MULTISITE’, true);
define( ‘MULTISITE’, true );
define( ‘SUBDOMAIN_INSTALL’, false );
$base = ‘/’;
define( ‘DOMAIN_CURRENT_SITE’, ‘myhomepagename.com’ );
define( ‘PATH_CURRENT_SITE’, ‘/’ );
define( ‘SITE_ID_CURRENT_SITE’, 1 );
define( ‘BLOG_ID_CURRENT_SITE’, 1 );
the integration breaks.
What’s the problem, and what’s the solution?
Any help will be appreciated.
Pagal, please describe the problem you’re having in a new topic. It’s not clear what is happening, when it’s happening or what you expect to happen instead. Please start a new topic with that information.
I don’t understand why you people “looking for a lightweight forum” don’t just use Vanilla.
*Obviously* BBpress is about working with WordPress, so those complaining about it becoming a plugin really need to get over yourselves. BBpress wasn’t made to cater whatever bizarre whim you wanted it to, it was made to provide a forum that functions with WordPress. A plugin works great for that.
If you want something else, look elsewhere and stop blaming others for making a poor decision.
One of the many broken aspects of bbpress.org 2.0. 
In last bbpress.org theme there was an option for “subscribe for this topic”…But I can’t find In new one….
I can not stay in touch with this forums regularly but its nice to get email updates abt my topics and I don’t like rss feeds….can any mod activate this plugin?
Thanks
@kevinjohngallagher you can’t understand what’s the problem?
I think everything clear in ma last post…
You can call (some) WP functions via bbPress is you use “deep integration”.
I can’t recommend not to strongly enough, but many do – though WP3.0 has some deep integration issues right now.
Some of them are covered here:
https://bbpress.org/forums/topic/troubleshooting-white-screen-of-death
https://bbpress.org/forums/topic/wp-30-beta-2-integrated-user-registration
Hmmm. I haven’t tried making a theme for bbPress yet, but would it be possible to call the new wp_login_form that you use for the blog into the header of the bbPress theme instead of using it’s current one?
What would you like me to say?
You haven’t told me what’s you’re expecting teh code to do, and what it does wrong instead?
Please, I want to help, but “it takes me to localhost” gives me nothing to work with
it takes me to local host… and my code was..
<?php
if ( is_user_logged_in() ) {
echo ”;
} else {
echo ‘
<table width=”480″ height=”90″ border=”0″ align=”right” >
<tr>
<td align=”left” >
<form class=”login” method=”post” action=”http://www.mysite.com/forums/bb-login.php”>
<div>
<label> Username
<input name=”user_login” type=”text” id=”quick_user_login” size=”13″ maxlength=”40″ value=”” tabindex=”1″ />
</label>
<label>
Password
<input name=”password” type=”password” id=”quick_password” size=”13″ maxlength=”40″ tabindex=”2″ />
</label>
<input name=”re” type=”hidden” value=”” />
<input type=”hidden” name=”_wp_http_referer” value=”/” />
<input type=”submit” name=”Submit” class=”submit” value=”Log in” tabindex=”4″ />
</div>
<div class=”remember”>
<label>
<input name=”remember” type=”checkbox” id=”quick_remember” value=”1″ tabindex=”3″ />
Remember me
</label>
</div>
</form>
</td>
</tr>
</table>
‘;
};
?>
<?php } ?>
@kevinjohngallagher please did not say this time “write your own code” 
Agreed. Thats why I said “Yeah, just copy them from the WP-config file.”.
There have been 4 versions of WordPress since the last version of bbPress Installer was written. Thigns change. Just copy them from the WP-config file.
Also, so you know, bbPress isn’t beilliantly compatible with WPMU. thats why the BuddyPress version of bbPress was/is for. I have no idea how this changes for WP3.0
There isn’t even labels or text boxes for auth_salt, secure_auth, and logged_in_salt in the actual wp-admin/options.php page when you view it from the admin area. There’s a bunch of other options but I’ve looked through them and used Find, but I don’t see them
WordPress Integration Settings for bbPress admin even gives me a direct link to the options page that it says those settings are, but they aren’t there. Here’s what it says for each of the 3 required salts:
“This must match the value of the WordPress setting named “auth_salt” in your WordPress site. Look for the option labeled “auth_salt”.”
“This must match the value of the WordPress setting named “secure_auth_salt” in your WordPress site. Look for the option labeled “secure_auth_salt”.”
“his must match the value of the WordPress setting named “logged_in_salt” in your WordPress site. Look for the option labeled “logged_in_salt”.”
No question is dumb mate, though the idea of testing your users to get 9/10 questions right before allowing them to talk on a forum might be very close to it 
It’s just a SQL call.
You can store the information you need in the “_meta” table.
Basically don’t think about it as a bbPress plugin, just code the PHP as you would if it was a website you’d built yourself.
How would I set a meta_key/meta_value pair? Is there an API for it or do I have to run a direct SQL query? A meta_key/meta_value pair is per user, right? Sorry for all the dumb questions, I’ve never programmed a bbPress or WordPress plugin.
If I wanted to make it so people had to register and login through the blog, I would just replace all the login stuff on the forums with a link that takes you to the blog?
No, you could just point the action part of your login/registration form to the WordPress one. That way people could login/register from wherever they want, but your WordPress install does all of the difficult work behind the scenes.
The salts are all in the wp-config file on my blog, but they aren’t showing up in the options.php page in the blog admin
Yeah, just copy them from the WP-config file.
Also, my blog and forums both have different $table_prefixs. Should they both have the same
Nah, thts fine as long as you have changed the bb-config to let it know what the WP user table is called.
Also, WP3.0MU is totally new to us (it’s been out less than 48 hours), so if there are any additional issues you might be the first to find them.
I guess I might take a shot at coding a bbPress plugin. Here’s what I was thinking of:
Adding an additional role that doesn’t allow posting, but is set as the default role. If that is detected, a message will appear telling the user about that, they can click on a link that will open a fancybox and show the quiz. If 9/10 or 10/10 of the questions were right, set some kind of cookie that changes the role to a member that can post. Just double-checking if my idea seems valid.
Hmm… I just deleted the forums folder from my hosting site and my local machine, re-unzipped bbPress, renamed it to folder, and uploaded it. Then I got to the install screen and it said there was no bb-config.php, which is correct because I just deleted the whole folder. So I put my database, name, etc in and pressed submit or whatever. It said my information had been saved to bb-config.php successfully. It actually made the bb-config.php file this time. When I clicked the go to step 2 button it said I already have a bbPress installation, so I just tried logging in and stuff and now it works.
I looked in bb-config.php and it didn’t have all the auth stuff filled in, but it still works. I then manually put the auth stuff into bb-config.php, got the plugin for the blog and entered the information in the bbPress admin area but it’s still doing the same thing. If someone logs in from the forums, they aren’t logged in at the site. I’m pretty sure when bb-config.php didn’t have any auth information I was able to log in from the forums and then go to the blog admin area without having to log in (I was originally logged out).
If I wanted to make it so people had to register and login through the blog, I would just replace all the login stuff on the forums with a link that takes you to the blog?
EDIT: Also, in the WordPress Integration Settings in bbPress admin, I have to make the salts match the ones in options.php, but when I go there, I don’t see the salts. The only salt I see is nonce, which isn’t one of the ones that need to match (auth, secure auth, logged in). Maybe that could be the problem? The salts are all in the wp-config file on my blog, but they aren’t showing up in the options.php page in the blog admin.
EDIT 2: Also, my blog and forums both have different $table_prefixs. Should they both have the same?
I guess I wasn’t involved with the community long enough to feel the burn from the back and forth decisions you mentioned. That does sound pretty shitty!
This is just pure speculation here but maybe the information from Automattic was so inconsistent because they weren’t sure what direction they were going themselves. I don’t know the whole history of BackPress but it sounds like it was a pretty big undertaking that would have had implications for WordPress as well. Going off my knowledge and what Matt said in the keynote it sounds like the BackPress project just didn’t work out in the long run but it was too late to take it back from bbPress.
Again, thats pure speculation so treat it with a grain of salt 
BTW Taeo, I miss not being able to recommed your UI
Heh sorry about that. It was too much work to maintain between patches I’ve posted some new stuff on my new website ( http://www.wowuigallery.com/topic/taeo-333-ui ) but it doesn’t have all the auto-config bells and whistles of the original.
For an good looking, easy to setup UI I usually recommend TukUI to people. I helped him build his site (WordPress and bbPress of course).
Plugin: Allow additional or custom profile fields
Adding Custom Profile Fields
Add New Fields to User Profile?
Customizing Profile Fields
Help with Basic Command to Add New Profile Fields
http://google.com/search?q=site%3Abbpress.org+extra+profile+fields
Since bbPress doesn’t have a dropdown generator, it’s obviously going to need custom code. You can’t set it as a profile key because bbpress won’t properly handle the output/input.
There is an action hook do_action( 'extra_profile_info', $user->ID );
which appears at the end of the regular profile block.
That’s where the data has to be shown.
However the data will not be saved by bbpress because it’s not in the profile keys.
What could be done is the profile keys could be unset when actually on the profile edit page, but exist otherwise – there is a sanitize filter that can be used:
$$key = apply_filters( 'sanitize_profile_info', $_POST[$key], $key, $_POST[$key] );
Or sanitization and saving could be done manually at do_action('profile_edited', $user->ID); by checking $_POST
So it’s a non-trivial amount of work which is why dropdowns are not already done via a plugin.
If I get through tomorrow without a migraine I might show you how to do a Male/Female dropdown.
